Then & Now #29: A muddy Montrose-area road

This one took a little work to figure out. And even then I’m only about 95 percent sure I have the right spot.

In the above photo, we’re looking up an unpaved Crocker Street toward Fairview. A little girl sits off to the left while a Houston Electric Company streetcar trundles by.

One of the few things in that photo that exists today is one of the houses on the left. You can kind of see it in the second photo below. It’s the second house from the left, with the stone columns on the front porch. You can see the house today here. The address for the house matches the address in another photo that shows the house.

Finally, the streetcar, No. 156, operated on the Louisiana line serving the developing Montrose/Hyde Park area. As such, the streetcar would have traveled along Fairview to reach those neighborhoods, according to Steven M. Baron’s book “Houston Electric.”